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Notes Unit 10: Servers

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
10.1 DNS Server

10.1.1 Configuring DNS Server
10.1.2 Downloading and Installing the BIND Packages
10.2 FTP Server

10.2.1 Installing and Configuring FTP Server Using vsftpd
10.3 Apache Web Server
10.3.1 Installing, and Running Apache

10.4 DHCP Server
10.4.1 How to Get DHCP Started
10.4.2 Installing DHCP

10.4.3 Configuring DHCP
10.5 Summary
10.6 Keywords

10.7 Review Questions
10.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

z z Discuss the concept of DNS server
z z Explain FTP server
z z Describe the concept of Apache web server
z z Explain the process of installing and configuring DHCP servers

Introduction

By the commencement of the 90s home PCs were lastly powerful enough to run a full blown
UNIX. Linus Torvalds, a young man studying computer science at the University of Helsinki,
thought it would be a good idea to have some sort of freely available academic version of UNIX,
and punctually started to code. From the start, it was Linus’ goal to have a free system that was
completely compliant with the original UNIX. Samba is a strong network service for file and
print sharing that works on the mainstream of operating systems available today. Vsftpd is a
GPL approved FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is
stable. Below, we will see evidence supporting all three assertions. Apache is the most extensively

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